This is the SACD release of Kleiber´s legendary recording of the Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7 from 1976. It offers superb audio reproduction of conventional stereo recordings as well as lifelike surround sound.
The SACD transfer takes full advantage of the new technology, offering sound of greater warmth, depth and clarity achieved by means of a wider dynamic range and frequency response than is possible with the conventional Compact Disc.
"This is the finest Fifth we have had for at least a decade. It is a glorious achievement: Vienna's answer to earlier Fifths made in London with Klemperer, and in Berlin with Karajan; and a further feather in the cap of the celebrated family Kleiber." - Gramophone, London, June 1975
"Kleiber's performance of the Seventh does at times bring us unnervingly close to the essential spirit of this great work, a rare enough phenomenon in all conscience." - HiFiNews, London, September 1976
Musicians:
Wiener Philharmoniker
Carlos Kleiber, conductor
Selections:
Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67
1. Allegro con brio
2. Andante con moto
3. Allegro
4. Allegro
Symphony No. 7 in A, Op. 92
5. Poco sostenuto - Vivace
6. Allegretto
7. Presto - Assai meno presto
8. Allegro con brio
Total Time: 72:27
The SACD transfer takes full advantage of the new technology, offering sound of greater warmth, depth and clarity achieved by means of a wider dynamic range and frequency response than is possible with the conventional Compact Disc.
"This is the finest Fifth we have had for at least a decade. It is a glorious achievement: Vienna's answer to earlier Fifths made in London with Klemperer, and in Berlin with Karajan; and a further feather in the cap of the celebrated family Kleiber." - Gramophone, London, June 1975
"Kleiber's performance of the Seventh does at times bring us unnervingly close to the essential spirit of this great work, a rare enough phenomenon in all conscience." - HiFiNews, London, September 1976
Musicians:
Wiener Philharmoniker
Carlos Kleiber, conductor
Selections:
Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67
1. Allegro con brio
2. Andante con moto
3. Allegro
4. Allegro
Symphony No. 7 in A, Op. 92
5. Poco sostenuto - Vivace
6. Allegretto
7. Presto - Assai meno presto
8. Allegro con brio
Total Time: 72:27
